Once again a lot of problems getting it there, but even though we started late it turned out to be just the right time to get the punters. A reviewer from Real Groove magazine turned up [and appearantly wrote a shonky and inaccurate review].
Hakaider was first. His last show in New Zealand for a long time, as he was leaving for Ireland on Sunday morning, and of course he pulled out a typically polished performance.
k5k was up next, the PA was fucked and didn't really do him justice. After that Hakaider played some of his Rayden stuff, which is more mellow and Drum'n'Bass-like, "to bring it back down after k5k's crazy shit".
And then finally it was my go. My sister Lenny Sparkles had come up from Wellington especially, which was great, because it meant someone bothered to dance [the punters having been largely scared away by k5k]. I played a set I was really happy with, but unfortunately at the end of the night it turned out that the mini-disc hadn't been recording!
Audioslut followed me, with a very long set, more than enough for me and Lenny to go to the park for a cigerette and come back and still do heaps of dancing. I was quite impressed by the stuff he was playing: the bass seemed just right [i.e. pounding] for the first time all night, but that may have been because I'd had a break outside...
After he left k5k and Hakaider spent a little while battling each other, but the bar was closing and all the punters were gone, so we packed up and went home. Still, it was a bigger success than the last event, and it'll only get better in the future.
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